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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Covid-19 cases in Indonesia continue to increase.
Government data from Saturday (10/10/2020) at 12.00 WIB, there were 4,294 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
The addition has resulted in the current total of 328,952 Covid-19 cases, as of the announcement of the first case on March 2, 2020.
This information was transmitted by the Covid-19 Management Working Group through data received by journalists on Friday afternoon.
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The public can also access the data on the Covid19.go.id and Kemkes.go.id sites, and updates appear every evening.
Although data shows that cases are on the rise, the government is raising hope by revealing that more Covid-19 patients are recovering.
In one day, there were an additional 3,814 Covid-19 patients who recovered after they were deemed no longer infected with the corona virus.
They were declared cured based on the examination with the polymerase chain reaction method that gave negative results.
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Therefore, the total number of Covid-19 patients who have recovered is now 251,481 since the start of the pandemic.
However, sad news still appears with the addition of Covid-19 patients who have passed away.
In the period from September 8 to 9, 2020, an additional 88 patients with Covid-19 died.
Thus, the Covid-19 death rate in Indonesia has now reached 11,765 people.
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Aside from the positive cases, the government also shows that today’s data shows that there are 151,652 people with suspect status.
Sample data
A total of 4,294 new cases of Covid-19 were discovered after examining 42,668 samples per day.
During the same period, 33,675 individuals were sampled for sample examination.
So far, the government has examined 3,726,476 specimens from 2,283,369 people sampled.
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For the record, a person can undergo a sample examination and take samples more than once.
Currently, all the provinces of Indonesia have registered cases of Covid-19, from Aceh to Papua.
In detail, there are 500 districts / cities in 34 provinces that have been affected by the transmission of the corona virus.